ETF Analysis & Opinion

The deconstruction continues in material stocks. The culprit this time around was a poor reading and interpretation of construction spending. Per AP News: “U.S. construction spending dropped 1.7...

The chart below is courtesy of KimbleChartingSolutions.com.According to their analysis, two key areas – semiconductors and Nasdaq stocks – may be forming an inverse head and shoulder...

Commodities bounced back in April, topping the performance list for the major asset classes. Rebounding after two straight monthly declines, a broad measure of raw materials jumped 2.6%, based on the...

The S&P 500 closed April with a minor monthly gain of 0.27% after a loss of 2.69% in March. All three S&P 500 MAs are signaling "invested" and three of five Ivy Portfolio ETFs — Vanguard...

This week it's a chart of US REIT ETF Assets Under Management, but basically as a prompt to talk about some previous and upcoming changes to the ubiquitous GICS system. The previous change was...

Pictures Are Worth A Thousand WordsWhen investors are confident about future economic outcomes, they tend to prefer growth-oriented XLY (consumer discretionary) over defensive-oriented XLP (consumer...

Here is your Bonus Idea with links to the full Top Ten:Amgen (NASDAQ:AMGN), has traded in a range between 165 and 195 for nearly a year. Back and forth. So how does this offer opportunity to profit?...

US real estate investment trusts (REITs) surged last week, posting the biggest gain by far for the major asset classes, based on a set of exchange-traded products. The increase marks the first weekly...

Current Position of the MarketS&P 500: Long-term trend – The bull market is continuing with a top expected in the low 3000s. Intermediate trend–The intermediate correction from...

Aflac Incorporated (NYSE:AFL) Aflac, $AFL, has had a long steady run higher. In January that run hit resistance and pulled back, first to the 50 day SMA and then through it. It bounced back to that...

Summary: US equities have been in a consolidation phase for most of 2018. In the past, these consolidation periods have lasted a half year or longer - so this might continue into summer - although...

Review, Update and Looking Forward “Could you add a few more lines to the chart!” That was one of the funniest comments I got last week. I get it. Over the last couple of months, I have...

S&P 500 Mini Non-Commercial Speculator Positions: Large stock market speculators cut back on their bullish net positions in the S&P 500 Mini futures markets this week, according to the latest...

What a strange week we just finished. Pretty much all the excitement was experienced on Tuesday (I don’t even remember what caused the plunge, not that it matters), and then we had the...